A long way home : a memoir
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A long way home : a memoir
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The work A long way home : a memoir represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.
- Label
- A long way home : a memoir
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Saroo Brierley, with Larry Buttrose
- Subject
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- Birthparents -- India -- Identification
- Brierley, Saroo
- Brierley, Saroo -- Family
- Brierley, Saroo -- Travel -- India
- East Indians -- Australia -- Biography
- Hobart (Tas.) -- Biography
- Intercountry adoption -- Australia | Tasmania
- Adopted children -- Australia | Tasmania -- Biography
- Kolkata (India) -- Biography
- Intercountry adoption -- India
- Audiobooks
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia. Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. When he was a young man the advent of Google Earth led him to pour over satellite images of the country for landmarks he recognised. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for. Then he set off on a journey to find his mother
- Cataloging source
- BLACP
- Dewey number
- 306.8740994
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- LC call number
- CT2808.B67
- LC item number
- A3 2014ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- autobiography
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Vikas Adam
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
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